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Daniel Bickett wrote:
> I used the config generator to acquire my xorg.conf ("X -config" if I
> remember correctly) and when I tested everything was fine: the cursor
> was there, the background was there, it worked. But when I used
> Ctrl+Alt+Backspace to exit, my screen went into what I've come to call
> a "color fit": sporadic colors asserted themselves across my screen in
> an equally sporadic manner. I was forced to reboot and try again,
> after which I discovered that if I wanted to get to this
> non-functional colored nonsense more *quickly*, I could just type
> "startx". At this point I went to #gentoo on freenode for help.
Did you remember to copy the generated xorg.conf to /etc/X11/xorg.conf?
> Many people were willing to help, but I didn't get anywhere. Everyone
> had their own opinion on what I needed to do to fix the situation, and
> most of them had to do with my xorg.conf. No matter what I changed,
> however, I always got those crazy colors. At one point someone told me
> that my chipset, the Intel 82845, was notorious for having trouble
> with X, and another referred me to the XFree86 documentation. I
> eventually found the page for the driver my graphics card uses (i810),
> and I did my best to apply the necessary changes
> (http://xfree86.org/4.4.0/i810.4.html), but to no avail. You can see
> my xorg.conf here, where I've just now uploaded it:
> http://heureusement.org/other/xorg.conf
You might like to try some of the latest xorg stuff. Which version are
you using now?
The drivers are quite similar in xorg and xfree86 since the maintainer
commits to both, so don't waste your time going back and forth.
Some options for disabling specific parts of acceleration can help to
narrow down your problem as well. You can start with Option "NoAccel" to
disable general 2D acceleration, then narrow it down with many of the
Xaa* options mentioned in the xorg.conf man page.
Also as someone else suggested, try disabling dri as well -- just don't
load the "dri" module in your xorg.conf.
You may be interested in searching bugs.freedesktop.org for your problem.
Thanks,
Donnie
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